TWO PARTS:
1. This part of speech names a person, place, thing, or idea.
2. This part of speech replaces a noun and eliminates repetition.
What is a noun? What is a pronoun?
100
This is a group of words that expresses a complete thought.
What is a sentence?
100
When a sentence has too many ideas and runs on too long, we have this.
What is a run-on sentence?
100
This part of speech expresses action or a state of being.
What is a verb?
100
Descriptive language appeals to the reader's five THESE.
What are senses?
200
This part of speech joins together words and phrases. Examples include FOR, AND, BUT, and SO.
What is a conjunction?
200
If a sentence is a group of words that expresses a complete thought, THIS is a group of words that expresses an INcomplete thought.
What is a sentence fragment?
200
When fixing run-ons, we use this mark of punctuation to make two sentences.
What is a period?
200
THIS refers to time.
What is tense?
200
This is the difference between a simile and a metaphor.
What is using "like" or "as?"
300
"The CLEVER student knew to study for the test." The capitalized word describes "the student," and is this part part of speech.
What is an adjective?
300
To be a complete, a sentence must have these two things.
What is a subject and a verb?
300
If we use THIS mark of punctuation to separate the ideas in a run-on sentence, we must first be sure the two ideas are similar.
What is a semicolon?
300
These are the three verb tenses.
What is past, present, and future.
300
"The blacktop parking lot feels as hot as the surface of the sun."
This sentence is an example of this literary device.
What is a simile?
400
This part of speech connects nouns and pronouns to other words in a sentence. Don't end a sentence with this sort of word!
What is a preposition?
400
This part of a sentence tells us who or what did something.
What is a subject?
400
We can also use a comma to correct run-ons. When we do, we must also use this part of speech that connects words and phrases together.
Man, what the fanboys would think of this...
What is a conjunction?
400
While writing, you must be sure your verb tenses agree. (If you begin with past tense, you must end with past tense.) Basically, you must finish what you __________.
What is start?
400
"The petite puppy, normally timid and shy, is a ferocious lion when the neighbor's cat walks by."
This sentence is an example of this literary device.
What is a metaphor?
500
Ouch! Wow! Hey! Psst! Oops! C'mon!
Expressing emotional states, these words are known as this part of speech.
What are interjections?
500
This part of a sentence tells us what happened.
What is a verb?
500
There is a fourth way to fix run-ons - it involves a semicolon and a conjunctive adverb. This is an example of a conjunctive adverb.
What is therefore, thus, however, consequently, furthermore, also, or nevertheless?
500
This verb tense expresses what you WILL DO tomorrow...
What is future?
500
"The severed electrical wire jumped and danced around the puddle, shooting sparks from it's wiry fingertips."
This sentence gives human-like characteristics to its subject and is therefore an example of this literary device.